In the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
SUSAN SONTAGMy idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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I don’t care about someone being intelligent; any situation between people, when they are really human with each other, produces ‘intelligence.
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Literature can train, and exercise, our ability to weep for those who are not us or ours.
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It’s a creator of inwardness.
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.
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The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
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Instead of just recording reality, photographs have become the norm for the way things appear to us, thereby changing the very idea of reality and of realism.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.
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Most people in this society who aren’t actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.
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Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.
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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.
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